cattle plague

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. rinderpest.

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cattle plague British  

noun

1. another name for rinderpest

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Etymology

Origin of cattle plague

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Rinderpest virus, also known as cattle plague, is in the same family as measles, but does not infect humans.

From Nature • Jul. 23, 2019

Rinderpest, which means "cattle plague" in German, is highly contagious and has a fatality rate of about 80 percent.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2011

Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract disease, are on the rise.

From Time Magazine Archive

These parts were examined by my colleague, Mr. Varnell, who at once recognised the special changes of structure which are caused by the cattle plague.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

—Probably the greatest slaughter ever wrought upon wild animals by diseases during historic times, was by rinderpest, a cattle plague which afflicted Africa in the last decade of the previous century.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple